Adobe Photoshop Training : Level 1

Photoshop CS3: Level 1 is for beginners who need an essential understanding of photo editing.

This is a level 1 photoshop course- no previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Level 1 Training Outline

Unit 1: APPLICATION OVERVIEW

* Vector vs. Raster based images
* Resolution
* Anti-aliasing
* Starting the application
* Opening files from the hard drive, and opening new files
* Saving files, and choosing file formats
* RAM and Hard Drive requirements

Unit 2: PREFERENCES

* Setting Photoshop preferences and Color Settings

Unit 3: OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSPACE

* Toolbox, palettes, hiding and docking palettes

Unit 4: NAVIGATION

* Getting around, and viewing images using the Navigator palette
* Zooming in and out
* Using the Hand tool

Unit 5: COLORS

* Switching the foreground and background colors
* Using the Swatches Palette
* Choosing CMYK safe colors, and viewing CMYK output in the RGB color space
* Using the color sliders to choose colors
* Choosing Custom colors

Unit 6: LAYERS

* Creating, viewing, reordering, linking, and moving
* Background layers and regular layers
* Layer Sets
* Locking layers

Unit 7: SELECTION TOOLS

* Using the basic selection tools: the Marquees, and Lasso tools
* Selecting by color, using the Magic Wand
* Adding and subtracting from selections
* Filling selections with foreground and background colors
* Hiding edges
* Saving selections
* Feathering selections

Unit 8: THE MOVE TOOL

* The difference between moving pixels and moving selection outlines

Unit 9: THE CROP TOOL THE BRUSH TOOL

* Setting brush options
* Modifying brush shape

Unit 10: THE AIRBRUSH TOOL

* Painting with the airbrush

Unit 11: BASIC IMAGE ADJUSTMENT AND CORRECTION

* Using Variations
* Brightness and Contrast

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